Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-06-24

I4NA IiI NJ St%U1AlCs1S, LILY 1SfSA AAAjCIS
I feel obliged to follow your ok
ample and prosecute this courtship
in e heroic mannah I'll have your
daughter, or I'll die trying to win her.
KememI or that. But mistaken; no
Pillkins will ever wed a Philpot perish
the thought. overheard them plan
ming an elopement, and / intercepted q
note from him not two hours ago, in
which he gave her the details, and set
the time, even to the hour. It is to
take place tonight. We give grand
party, you know, and she is to slip away
after supper, when the carriages are
drawn up in line before the pavement
and the guests are taking their depar-
lure. She is to put on long dark
wrap, and carry q tuberose in her hand,
by which he is to recognize her. There
is to be carriage handy. She is to en-
ter it, and the driver is to go to the
devil. But, unknown to Mr.. Pillkins,
Arabella's old dad is to put in his ap-
pearance just at this opportune time
and stop the performance, and Arabel-
Ia herself is to be yanked upstairs and
sent to bed"
. AND what am TO 90 Z"
"You are to come to the ball as guest.
I will Introduce you. to my daughter,
and you must shadow her during the
whole evening. She must not be al
lowed to evade us. I would go home
now and lock her up and have an end
to it all but for the party. 1t would
never do for her to be absent when our
guests arrive. I've spent small for
tune on this party, and I want it to be
success, and am determined not to
give up the entertainment, nor to allow
Pillkins to run away with Arabella." :
It'll be there early" said T, eagerly.
"Do. I'll give you hundred dollars
to help me outwit the rascaliy Pillkins.
He's entirely too smart in his own esti-
nation. And if he thinks he will ever
feather his nest'-tiguratively speaking,
of course-with Arabella's $50, 600, why,
then, he'll do it through old Philpot's
1nistake-that's ALL"
"You can depend upon me, and +
never expect to earn hundred dollars
more easily than 7 will tonight, my
dear major. Let me see: tuberoses-
dark wraps-waiting carriages at about
8 o'clock in the morning. T give you
my word Maj. Philpot, that if Pillkins
gets at Arabella tonight you may use
my head for a football"
Good. TIL expect you early" and
with that he tore himself away.
I hired an elaborate evening suit and
took my way to the Philpot mansion.
The major lived in elegant style in q
big stone-house on Schuyler avenue.
He had given me card, which ( sent
up by servant. Instantly the major
came into the study where the servant
had conducted me to wait moment.
''Gad!" says he, "you look like a
dandy"
II am dandy" says I, for tonight,
any way. How goes it,"
Lovely. Arabella suspects nothing.
She is rather more affectionate than
common, but, in view of her intended
flight, perhaps not more SO than is nat"
ural."
A heavy velvet curtain that concealed
doorway trembled slightly and caught
my attention for moment. What if
somebody should overhear US; but no
that was impossible. I stepped toward
the curtain, but at that moment the
beautiful Arahella herself appeared in
the farther recess.
MY daughter, this is Mr.. Sidesing-
or, of Columbus. Miss Philpot, Mr..
Sidesinger," says the major, introduce
ing us.
The major and I had agreed that
should be known that evening as a
Mr.. Sidesin ger from Ohio-a particular
friend ofhis whom he had not met with
in E, long time.
As an old friend of her fathers /
hope Miss Philpot will reserve me a
few of the dances on her tablet" says !
to the young lady,
CAS- many as you like" she said af-
fably, and I marked as many as I
dared.
She was called away just then by a
lot of fresh arrivals; but I managed
soon to make my way through the
crowd into the ball room. I knew she
would not attempt to leave the house
before supper, so there was nothing to
worry myself about. You know it is
not often that a poor detective gets a
chance to mingle with the fashionable
swells. as an equal, and / wanted to
make the best of it.
Whenever T thought CT Pillkins-and
it was often enough TO keep me in good
humor---l could not help but laugh in
my sleeve at the trick we were going to
play on him. To earn hundred dol
lars and be revenged on your enemy at
the same time is enough to make any
body cheerful, and Miss Philpot had no
occasion to complain of inattention on
my part, when in course Of the even
ing / claimed her for partner.
I danced her and I iced her and ]
walked her four thousand miles,
firmly believe, around the big con-
servatory. I frequently caught the
majors eye, but he smiled the broadess
kind of approval, and long before sup.
per- time I had earned the undying ha-
tired Of . score Of young fellows who
envied me my good luck in putting the
rest of her admirers in the shade-sc
to speak. As the hour grew later, ]
noticed Miss Philpot began to cast fur.
tive glances toward the little study.
The major, busy with his guests, still
took time to send me two lines by q
servant, bidding me to be on my guard.
T. determined not to take my eyes Of
his Maynard daughter, and though i
was impossible to be constantly at hen
side, still I lowered near enough to set
every motion on her part. What puz.
zled me most was the fact that, econtrary
to our expectation. she made no motion
| to leave the parlors. 1t was long past
| q o'clock. The dancers had tired them.
selves out and were now scattered here
and there in tho dressing rooms, Of
stood wrapped and ready. to make thei1
edieux. The time had come, il at all
1xhan fha oinnamant would Ia attain, n